Word: fanshen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like last year's Little Flag Cooperative's production of "Fanshen," "Emma" is theater with an unmistakeable political message. Battling against the twin injustices of sexual discrimination and economic inequality, Zinn's Emma Goldman is both a social activist and humanist in her diverse roles as union organizer, lecturer, social worker and midwife...
Tania, Maxine Klein's musical work about Tamara Bunke, who fought and died with Che Guevara in Bolivia, is playing in repertory with Fanshen at the Little Flags Theater Collective, Boston Center for the Arts, 551 Tremont St., Boston. Tania plays Thursday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 10 p.m; Fanshen plays Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday...
...debates within Peking's small foreign community. Their narrative is interwoven with description of the events in their own microcosm of China's students, giving the book the sense of being a traveller's tale as well as a well-researched academic work. Like William Hinton's Fanshen, The Wind has an impact a straight history could not have achieved; but even the Miltons seem bewildered by many aspects of the Cultural Revolution, as if they, too, could not quite fathom the allegory and thetoric in which the debates were couched...
...Fanshen. A dramatization of William Hinton's account of the land reform movement in a Chinese village. It's a great book, but I'm not quite sure how anyone could reenact the story. Still, if you're interested, it's at the People's Theater (you couldn't guess?) at 1253 Cambridge St. in Inman Square, Thurs-Sat at 8:05 p.m. Tickets...
Chiefly at the urging of Concerned Committee members and their allies, there is a vogue among politically hip college and high school students for books describing Mao's revolution in sympathetic terms; among them are Fanshen, Agricultural Expert William Hinton's narrative of how the revolution affected one village, and Journalist Edgar Snow's Red Star over China...